CO4Kids

MARCH 31, 2025

CO4Kids is the Colorado Department of Human Services statewide initiative to provide awareness about Colorados child welfare system. If you suspect child abuse or neglect, call 844-CO-4-KIDS (844-264-5437). For more information on child abuse prevention, visit the CO4Kids website or follow CO4Kids on Instagram and Facebook.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If a familys child(ren) is detained or deported, families can contact the caseworker or their county human services department for support. To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If the family doesnt have a protection plan and there are no surrogate caregivers, this will prompt a referral to the County Department of Human/Services. In kinship care, the child or youth is placed with someone with an existing relationship with the child/youth, such as a relative, godparent, coach, teacher, or neighbor.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in foster care came up with a proposal for change that they called “child welfare finance reform.” … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services.

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CO4Kids

MAY 23, 2025

This special event honors young people involved in the foster care system or youth services who have earned their high school diploma, General Education Development (GED) or college degree. To learn more about the Celebration of Educational Excellence, visit the CDHE webpage. -30-

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.

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CO4Kids

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press New law helps relatives and family friends care for kids, providing an alternative to placement in foster care DENVER (September 23, 2024) – The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) celebrates a new state law that provides more resources for kinship caregivers of children in child welfare cases.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 13, 2025

and The Harbour Partner Under Federal Grant to Expand Emergency Shelter Services Arlington Heights, IL, January 13, 2025 Shelter, Inc. is excited to announce its partnership with The Harbour, a Park Ridge-based organization, to expand emergency shelter services for at-risk youth in suburban Cook County. Shelter Inc.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Now, let’s see if Senator Soundbite tries to undermine the progress The Oregonian has a story about the decline in foster care numbers in that state – and how it’s not due to more child abuse supposedly being hidden due to COVID lockdowns. That will start a foster-care panic, another surge in needless removals of children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents. That takes care of “permanence.” Similarly, the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Wood has worked in the human services and social work field for about 30 years, primarily in residential treatment, group home, and foster care environments. When chapter rules required her to take a year off from serving, she decided to run for the national board of directors.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Want to see how easy it is for the foster care system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

KVC’s expertise spans from preventative, educational services that are the least intensive way to help children and families, to community-based services like foster care that fall in the middle of the continuum, to high-end, acute inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment which is the most intensive way of helping a person in crisis.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. And here’s still another study showing that the best “preventive service” is cash.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s not a full-scale class-action lawsuit, but it’s a good start: Children’s Rights is representing the Minneapolis NAACP in a formal complaint to the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights. For example, in Minnesota Black children are twice as likely to be thrown into foster care as white children.

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CO4Kids

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For those seeking expert guidance, the Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) at the Colorado Department of Human Services is a valuable resource. They help you assess the nuances of your community and make thoughtful adjustments to existing programs without compromising the integrity of the evidence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

And letting children remember their birth parents and acknowledging the love between them may make things uncomfortable for the people for whom the system is designed: Overwhelmingly middle-class disproportionately white foster and adoptive parents. Consider the comments of Penn State Prof.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

In Arizona, for example, nearly every impoverished Black child will be subjected to a child abuse investigation and 20% will be forced into foster care. And Younge never could have done this to families had the Philadelphia Department of Human Services not harassed the families and brought them before her in the first place.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

There’s a federal law that makes housing vouchers available to youth aging out of foster care. In a state that tears apart families at a rate 70% above the national average, probably quite a few. But, NCCPR Board Member Ruth White writes in The Imprint, it took another law just to force caseworkers in Washington, D.C.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. Justice Department is asking the same question. … Yes, they really do that.) The Imprint has a round-up of legislative changes. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 22, 2025

They also revealed that the Oregon Department of Human Services knew about the abuse and did nothing. That investigation whacked the state into raising standards for foster homes. It wound up warehousing foster children in offices and jails.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC) was funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, and Children’s Bureau.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

The convening leaders included Rebecca Jones Gaston, the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families commissioner at the Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Children in kinship care are disproportionately kids of color, most often poor and living in rural communities.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As a result, everyone from the state’s probate judges to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services pursue solutions that will make things worse. In Michigan, 17 percent of children were thrown into foster care because their parents lacked adequate housing — that’s more than were taken because of physical abuse.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 1, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Colorado Juvenile Parole Board (JPB) Seeking Applications to Fill One Public At-Large Seat The JPB is a nine-member, Type 1 transfer board, supported by staff housed in the Office of Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF) within the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS).

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Organizations pursue accreditation to demonstrate the implementation of best practice standards in the field of human services. Shelter, Inc.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2025

These may include : Exposure to neighborhood violence Experiences of discrimination Substandard housing conditions Food insecurity Foster care involvement Periodically re-administer the ACEs Questionnaire to capture any changes in the clients life and to ensure alignment with their evolving treatment needs.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

So, of course, leave it to the governor and his human services leadership team to propose doubling down on their failed approach. But it was Massachusetts’ fanaticism about tearing apart families that made that tragedy more likely in the first place.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples. In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald V.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

As The Imprint reports : Data compiled by the state’s Department of Human Services for this outlet show that in 2022, more than 40% of the 4,051 Minnesota foster children placed with strangers were Native American, African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander or Latino.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

A lawyer representing parents seeking to join the suit against the family police agency said: “Some of them had no say. Some of them had evidence ignored, lies told about them, false evidence introduced, false testimony given in their cases.

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